Redgate Cloud Research

Are you thinking about the cloud yet? Redgate is conducting some research into cloud adoption to better understand both the drivers and the blockers. Whether or not you’ve taken the plunge yet, they would love to hear from you. Participate in the survey and be entered into a draw to win an Amazon gift card worth $100.

SQL Server 2016 Row Level Security Block and Filter Predicates Example

Rajendra Gupta takes a look at the additional enhancements made to Row Level Security in SQL Server 2016 CTP 3.1 and explores the new features with examples.

Byte Me: Literal Thinking

Cloud Adoption Survey

Are you thinking about the cloud yet? Redgate is conducting some research into cloud adoption to better understand both the drivers and the blockers. Whether or not you’ve taken the plunge yet, they would love to hear from you. Participate in the survey and be entered into a draw to win an Amazon gift card worth $100.

Enabling TDE on Databases in an AlwaysOn Scenario

Enabling Transparent Data Encryption on Databases in Always On Scenario

The Digital Woes of Public Records

Public records have been open in the past, but today's digital access might mean problems.

The SQL Server 2016 Query Store: Accessing Query Store Information Using DMVs

The SQL Server 2016 Query Store provides several new ways of troubleshooting queries, studying their plans, exploring their context settings, and checking their performance metrics. In using the Query Store to ensure that performance is as good as possible, it isn't long before it becomes important to be familiar with the DMVs that are associated with the query store, and using them in custom queries.

Thinking About the Cloud?

Are you thinking about the cloud yet? Redgate is conducting some research into cloud adoption to better understand both the drivers and the blockers. Whether or not you’ve taken the plunge yet, they would love to hear from you. Participate in the survey and be entered into a draw to win an Amazon gift card worth $100.

Culture and Performance

Culture is important at our workplace. Steve Jones notes this can be important when trying to get the most performance from your employees.

SQL, and Ye Shall Find

Phil Factor reflects on how hard it really is to develop a really effective database that meets the SQL Standards, and how as a result we are only beginning to realize fully the vision of relational orthogonality in databases.